Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a look (at); an assessment.

1932		‘Ex-Légionnaire 1384’ With the Secret Service in Morocco 21: I ask you again—will you join us?’ ’Okay. I’ll take a basinful.
1937		L. Lane Me and My Girl I iii: bill: (confronted with the morning’s mail and being informed of one with the Lambeth post-mark) Oh! Let’s have a basinful o’ that!

2. an excessive amount, more than enough; usu. as phr. I’ve had a basinful of.

1938		J. Curtis They Drive by Night 277: You get bigheads writing to the papers saying that flogging ought to be brought in for this, that, and the other. I’d like them to have a basinful.
1943		M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 93: ’Cos me an’ ’im ’as ’ad a basin-full o’ this ’ere Lonely-Sojer caper.
1958		J. Osborne Epitaph for George Dillon Act II: We got a basinful of what we gave the Jerries, smack bang in the middle of the camp.
1968		A. Buckeridge Jennings in Particular (1988) 33: We’ve just about had a basinful of this gruesome old hole.
1978		(con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 107: You’ll get a basinful of it here, all right.